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SPANISH GRANITES

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  Granite is the strongest stone that accompanies the humanity since centuries. Its brilliance, durability and colours allow it to be very useful from home kitchen vanities until big architectural projects for flooring, wall cladding both interior and exterior. Its adaptability to any ambience makes it suitable for interior coverings in polished finish and also providing a wide variety of finishes, such flamed, brushed or sandblasted, for being used in outdoor ambiences as paving or wall covering. Spanish Granites share as common aspect the homogeneity in colour and grain design.                                                       WHITES BLANCO CRISTAL Blanco Cristal shows over a white background a fine grained pattern mottled with small black mica spots. BLANCO PERLA Greyish background of medium-fine grain BLANQUINO   Greyish background with fine grain SILVER WHITE White background mottled with tiny specks of black, together with larger cream and grey crystals. GREYS GRAN PER
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BLUE ONYX

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 Blue Onyx is one of the most demanded colours on the world of natural Onyx. The soft blue colour that becomes intense when backlit made this exotic stone suitable for special decorations. In fact, Blue Onyx doesn't exist as we thought...Of course there are Onyx of blue background, but the main blue onyx offered are mostly white onyx that has been tinted on the back with a special blended translucent peinture. That is the reality... In Spain we can find special Blue Onyx like the Atlantis (but not translucent) Anyway the final finish of the tinted Blue Onyx is so fantastic that will fill your expectations. Going to show some options BLOCK 545 sizes average 255-268x150x2 cm 24 slabs BLOCK 546 sizes average 238x135x2 cm 28 slabs Block 0131. Sizes 195cm x 162cm x 2cm.  Available 6 slabs (18.96m2) Block 0150. Sizes 245cm x 165cm x 2cm. Available 2 slabs (8.08m2). Block 0171. Sizes 300cm x 188cm x 2cm. Available 2 slabs (11,28m2)
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White marble tiles in Spain

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  Spain is one of the most important producers of natural marble in the world. The Spanish quarries produce a wide variety of marble in different colors, such as cream, red, brown…but, What about White marble ?. The only white Spanish marble is the  WHITE MACAEL , quarried in the Almeria province, in Macael area. If we talk about cut to size areas there are a lot of imported white marbles available in slabs but if the project intends to use the marble for flooring or wall cladding in standard formats, then only some options in standard size tiles are possible. WHITE MACAEL White Macael marble is the only white Spanish marble, quarried in the Almeria province and present in the Spanish architecture since centuries. This spanish white marble stands out for its white-grayish background of coarse grain, patterned with delicate shadows of grey and almost bluish color.   It is a marble that has been widely used during centuries, thus, the quarry layers are scarce and odd sized, so not
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Stone for outdoor. Crazy paving

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  In any project in which an outdoor space has to be filled, the customer’s idea is reaching a natural combination between architecture and the surrounding nature. An ideal option is the use of the crazy paving stone. Rocks quarried in boulders and split manually to create irregular random tiles usable in both outdoor paving and wall cladding. Each country has is geological sources, from limestone to basalt, gneiss, andesite…Here in Spain they are Quartzite quarries . Quartzite is a metamorphic rock, when high temperatures and pressures produce the formation of a consistent rock composed almost entirely of quartz from the original sandstone. Pure quartzite is the most weather-resistant rock available, due to its high compressive and abrasion resistance, its non-porous features, hardness, uniformity and strength that makes it completely adequate for exterior applications. As visual properties, the Spanish quartzite has vivid colors, uniform or mixed, with a glossy pattern due to the
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